Feature: Book design
Permanent innovation
With his ‘livre objets’ for the French book clubs, Pierre Faucheux invented a new genre
Naked words
Type-only book covers – whether deliberately austere, functional … or shouting loud from the shelves –…
Theatre of dreams
Andrzej Klimowski is obsessed with eyes, faces, hands, angels and devils. He is one of Britain’s most…
White space black hat
Derek Birdsall harbours a secret. It has given him 30 years at the top. If it works, he says, use it…
Quentin Fiore: Massaging the message
The man who gave form to Marshall McLuhan’s ‘global village’ designed books that were both for and ahead…
Stop making sense
The best-loved children’s stories are for adults too. Five American illustrators push at the boundaries…
Tokyo Salamander
Vaughan Oliver’s collaboration with Shinro Ohtake is an oblique diary of dreams
Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics.
For the first in a new series, Eye revisits Richard Hollis’s innovatory design for a book on the French…